3/5 ★ – Empyrean's review of Spyro: Year of the Dragon.

Three games in and Spyro is already played out. Apparently learning nothing from Warped, Year of the Dragon doubles down on all the issues of Ripto’s Rage whilst doing nothing to evolve Spyro himself. No memorable levels or music, just tedious mini-games and character stages. The only reason it’s a 3 is because it’s easily the funniest of the trilogy and I actually like all of the characters, bar the Sorceress. The fact that this isn’t great and yet it’s still all downhill from here makes me not want to continue.